Padres Skipper Retires...

[krazy2k]

Mike Shildt, the Padres skipper, retired over the weekend. He had a .565 winning percentage and took the Padres to the postseason both years he was in San Diego. Perhaps the Padres will pursue Torey Lovullo and take him off our hands? Not likely since Torey is under .500 for his managerial career. It is very likely that Torey gets a final chance with the Dbacks in season 10.

 

[Weenus O'Baggins]

Latest On Mike Shildt's Resignation As Padres Manager

The ex-skipper and Padres PBO A.J. Preller share more details on the team's unexpected managerial change. Visit MLB Trade Rumors for more.

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This is really a crazy read and makes me appreciate Torey's cool demeanor a bit more. The manager turnover is San Diego is crazy

 

[dscher]

I guess he started having a habit of losing clubhouses pretty quickly. Likely changing of the guard with younger generation not loving the fiery hot tempered managerial style. Who knows.

 

[Dback Jon]

Latest On Mike Shildt's Resignation As Padres Manager

The ex-skipper and Padres PBO A.J. Preller share more details on the team's unexpected managerial change. Visit MLB Trade Rumors for more.

www.mlbtraderumors.com

This is really a crazy read and makes me appreciate Torey's cool demeanor a bit more. The manager turnover is San Diego is crazy

It is pretty wild they have little patience for losing managers...

 

[Weenus O'Baggins]

It is pretty wild they have little patience for losing managers...

Well let's compare apples to apples. 2016 to 2025

Payroll 2016 to 2019 and then record.

SD Dbacks
25th 68-94 22nd 60-93
29th 71-91 26th 93-69
25th 66-96 17th 82-80
23rd 70-92 16th 85-77

So from 2016 to 2019 Padres were 25th in Payroll and averaged 69 wins and 93 losses.

Torey had the 20th payroll and averaged 80 wins and 82 losses. The one terrible season really throws off the 3 winning ones.

COVID happened and the Padres went crazy on the payroll. I will remove the covid shortened season because of it's sample size.

7th 79-83 20th 52-110
5th 89-73 24th 74-88
3rd 82-80 21st 84-78
15th 98-64 15th 89-73
5th 90-72 13th 80-82

So in this span, the Padres averaged the 7th highest payroll in the majors and had 4 out of 5 winning seasons averaging 88 wins and 74 losses. Torey averaged the 19th highest payroll or pretty much what he had before and had 2 out of 5 winning seasons. Still due to the one outlier year his winning percentage is just anchored down.

In reality Torey has had a winning season in 5 out of 9 seasons despite having the 20th highest payroll in the majors on average. Take out his two tank years and he averages 84-78 without ever having a top 12 payroll.

Meanwhile the Padres have just 4 winning seasons out of 9 and on average have had the 15th best payroll. Remove their two low years and you get 83 and 81 on average with significant payroll advantages.

 

[elindholm]

Padres fans are like, "He retired, no Shildt?"